I just got an Ultra 1E clone (170MHz, 450 MB RAM, 18GB HDD) and installed Gentoo on it. Took a couple of days, but now it is working really fine (Thanks, guys). However, I cannot do a power-off from the serial console: the machine shuts down and returns to the OBP prompt, forcing me to type "power-off" manually . It doesn't matter if I specify halt or halt -p. When I connect kbd and monitor, powering down works fine. A quick google search didn't help either.

I think this patch can be applied, but it seems to be intended only for sparc32, not for sparc64. Won't hurt to try, though._________________"I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere."